I cut identically sized triangles of St. James flake this morning, and got out the triple-beam to weigh them. My triple beam weighs to the gram, not the tenth of a gram like I thought.

Weighing flake tobacco to the gram isn't accurate enough by a order of magnitude for this experiment... but I got the problem solved! I called up a retired priest friend of mine down in Taos who used to be a chemistry teacher. He tells me he has a cabineted balance scale that is accurate to the hundredth of a gram! Yee-Haww!!! Two orders of magnitude will solve this problem.

The experiment is gonna be expanded to both me and Father Joe as smoking subjects, and he suggested we smoke the two small bowls a few different times throughout the day. He also suggested I bring a bottle of brandy.

The newly expanded experiment will go forward as soon as I have a day off... probably early next week when the managers get back. Until then, I'm working every day.